Engineers from Southern Electric were dispatched to the scene immediately, but were forced to stop their work at 1am due to dangerous weather conditions.

A spokesperson from Southern Electric said: “Engineers were dispatched but due to weather conditions they did have to suspend the work because it was too dangerous for them to carry on.

“They went back out first thing the next morning and because work to repair the network was due to take time mobile generators were brought in to get the supplies back on.”

All power was back on by 10pm on Tuesday, December 13. Permanent repairs to the network took place on December 14, with a short interruption to the power supply for 30 minutes while the service was switched over from the mobile generators.